Improvement in woven fringed fabrics



f #aan sere l (time PETER cocKE-E, or PHILADELPHIA,PENNSYLVANIA, AssIeNoR ro HIM@ YsELE AND WILLIAM I. MCEEIDE or SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 110,012, dated December 13, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN WOVEN FRINGED. FABRICS..

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making parl: of the same.`

To all whom it may concern l Be it known .that I, PETER GocKEn, of Germantown, city of Philadelphiaand State of Pennsylvania,

having a fringe woven on each selvage edge, and said fringe being separate and independent ofthe lling, which fringe is attached tothe selvage during the process of weaving, enabling me to produce a fringe of wool with cotton filling, or a fringe of worsted and woolen filling, or a fringe all of one color while the iilling is of different colors. -It also enables meto use yarn for the fringe that requires no twisting after being taken from the loom, and can be applied to the weaving of shawls, bed-coverlets, table-cloths, scarfs, cloths for wearing-apparel, and all other textile fabrios requiring a fringe.

In order to the clear understanding of my invention, I will proceed to describe the same as illustrated in the accompanying drawing.

The warp-threads are denoted by the vertical lines,

which are arranged in the usual manner, the filling denotedby those running at right angles across the warp-threads, marked A. K

Oneaeh side of the cloth I havethree ends for. the fringe-selvage, marked B'B, and these threads are arranged parallelwith the warp, and on separate spools from the warp-beam.'

The twisted yarn suitable to form the fringe is marked C O, and is wound on bobbins, oneA on cach side, which are attached t0 a suitable part ofthe loom.

The ii-inge-threa`d is carried in by the lling-thread from each side of theloom in the'following manner: v vThe selvage-threads B B are mounted in separate pairs of harness, one pairfor each selvage. These are operated one ata time every other pick of the shuttle,

or eachy when the shnttle'is ontheopposite side of the cloth, and by this arrangement it lwill he seen that the filling will not form a selvage on the fringe, but will pass through and form a selvage on each side of the cloth.

The fringeeyarn C G passes through a single mail of harness, one on each side'of the cloth, which is operated at the time the shuttles. are on that side, raising or loweringthe thread 0,'t-hat it will cause it to cross the filling-thread, which, on its return, will carry the fringe-yarn to the selvage of the cloth forming one loop of fringe.

4 WVhen taken from the loom, and the outer selvagethreads B B are cut, the fringe will be iinished with- `vout any further twisting.

The mechanical devices 'as applied to the loom to produce the above-described independent fringe I purpose to make the subject 'of another application for Letters Patent at a future time.

Having thus fully .described my invention,

' What Iclaim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A.woven textile fabric, having an independent fringe woven on and to it during the process of weaving, as

above described. Witnesses:

JOHN SHINN, JOHN J o RDAN. l

' PETER COOKER. 

